Simulation and Performance Studies for the Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory
Abstract
While IceCube's detection of astrophysical neutrinos at energies up to a few PeV has opened a new window to our Universe, much remains to be discovered regarding these neutrinos' origin and nature. In particular, the difficulty of differentiating electron- and tau-neutrino charged-current (CC) events limits our ability to measure precisely the flavor ratio of this flux. The Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory (TAMBO) is a next-generation neutrino observatory capable of producing a high-purity sample of tau-neutrino CC events in the energy range from 1 PeV--100 PeV, i.e. just above the IceCube measurements. An array of water Cherenkov tanks and plastic scintillators deployed in the Colca Canyon will observe the air-shower produced when a tau lepton, produced in a tau-neutrino CC interaction, emerges from the opposite face and decays in the air. In this contribution, I will present the performance studies for TAMBO -- including the expected rates, effective areas, and discrimination potential -- as well as the simulation on which these studies are based.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.08524,
title = {Simulation and Performance Studies for the Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory},
author = {Carlos A. Argüelles and Jeffrey Lazar and William Thompson and Pavel Zhelnin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.08524},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Presented at the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025)